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  • Contributors

LYDIA G. FASH . . .
is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Simmons University (Boston, Massachusetts), where she runs the humanities internship program and teaches literature and creative writing. She is the author of articles in Narrative, The New England Quarterly, Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic and Literary Cultural Relations, and elsewhere. Her monograph The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature (U of Virginia P, 2020) argues that early nineteenth century short fiction authors, including Sarah Hale, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, innovate with narrative beginnings as they cater to a public that wants to define the present through the past. In so doing, short fiction helps define who does and does not count as “American,” and establishes a racially exclusive and self-consciously national literary tradition. She is currently working on Popular Pirates, a project about piratical characters in Atlantic basin literature.

DAVID FAFLIK . . .
is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. A specialist in nineteenth century American literature and culture, he is the author of Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840–1860 (Northwestern UP, 2012), Melville and the Question of Meaning (Routledge, 2018), Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading (Fordham UP, 2020), and Transcendental Heresies: Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief (U of Massachusetts P, 2020). His current research focuses on the literary forms and cultural functions of the gift book in early America.

SYLVAN GOLDBERG . . .
is an assistant professor of English at Colorado College, where he teaches and writes on US literature in the long nineteenth century and the environmental humanities. He has published essays on environmental affect, the cultural influence of nineteenth century science, and the roles of climate and environment in western American studies. He is completing a book manuscript on the ways in which life sciences appear throughout nineteenth-century US culture.

JACQUELINE JUSTICE . . .
is Associate Professor of English at Bowling Green State University Firelands College, Huron, Ohio. She grew up on the Lake Erie coast, where she acquired a passion for Great Lakes literary culture. She is especially interested in shipwreck literature and is driven by opportunities to highlight overlooked texts and writers. In addition to her work as a teacher and scholar, Justice serves as a senior editor of Inland Seas: Quarterly Journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society.

CLEMENS SPAHR . . .
is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. He is the author of A Poetics of Global Solidarity: Modern American Poetry and Social Movements (Palgrave, 2015) and Radical Beauty: American Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity (Schoeningh, 2011). He has published in Nineteenth-Century Prose, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, and Amerikastudien/American Studies. He is the coeditor of a forthcoming international Handbook of American Romanticism. His current book project, tentatively titled American Romanticism and the Limits of Education, investigates the relationship between literary Romanticism and the educational institutions of antebellum America.

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